Marking-ticket.



E. L. KINCH.

MARKING TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 31. 1916.

1,230,412. Patented June 19, 1917.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EARL I1. KINCH, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERBURY BUCKLECOMPANY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

MARKING-TICKET.

Application filed March 31, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EARL L. KINCH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMarking-Tickets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to marking tickets adapted to encircle the articleto which one is applied and my object is the production of a ticketwhich will securely hold in place, be readily attachable or detachableand have a neat appearance.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a View of one form of my ticket, and Fig. 2 aView of the ticket of Fig. l on a piece of goods.

The ticket comprises a strip of suitable material, such as bristolboard, foldable on itself at 1 and 2 forming the tabs 3, 4 and 5. Abutton 6 is secured near one end of the tab 8 with a slot 7 adjacentthereto. The tab 5 has an aperture 8 therein adapted to engage thebutton 6 with a snap-like action, the tab adjacent thereto beingnarrowed to form a tongue.

In use the ticket is folded around the web, strip, ribbon or otherarticle 10, the aperture 8 snapped over the button 6 and the tongue 9slipped into the slot 7.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1917.

Serial No. 87,942.

To assist in the snap-like action of the aperture in engaging the buttonthe radial slots 11 may be punched in the tab adjacent thereto.

When the ticket is applied to solid, as distinguised from flat, articlesthe ticket is not folded but is wrapped around and secured as abovestated.

I claim A marking ticket comprising a strip of material adapted toencircle an article to be marked, one end being narrowed to form atongue, the other end being slotted to receive the tongue, the length ofthe slot being equal to the width of the tongue where the two intersect,a button on the strip adjacent to the slot, the strip being perforatedat a point directly over the button when the tongue is in the slot, saidperforation being adapted to engage the button.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

EARL L. KINCH'.

Witnesses RoswnLL A. MOORE, ANNA J. SHEEHY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

